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i have 4 bp's all adults they live in a 41qt ap rack. i hardly ever take them out and hang with them. is it bad that they never get to come out and roam a little? just wandering what most other small breeders do with there animals as far as letting them out or not? thanks to all!

I take mine out, but never on feeding day. I have a new baby so I don't bring them out as often as I used to, but they all come out at least once per week.....but I only have 8 snakes, so it doesn't take too much time. They all get about an hour per week.
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Teresa
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3.0 Dogs (2.0 Chihuahuas, 1.0 Toy Poodle)
1.5 Cats
1.0 Cockatiel
1.0 Indonesian Blue tongue skink

Ball Pythons
0.1 100% Het Albino (Watson)
1.0 Pastel (Sweets)
0.1 Spider (Daisy)
1.0 Albino (Gormagon)
1.0 Lesser (Wendell)

there has been a high profile case lately where 3 men were released after spending a few decades in jail accused of murdering some young boys. one of them spent a ton of time in solitary confinement and now has major distance perception problems, since his eyes had only 6 feet of space to focus on for so long.

made me wonder if animals enclosed in the more opaque enclosures suffer the same thing eventually - it makes sense that they would. for this reason alone lately, i try to get them all out once a week. if you have enclosures that have clear fronts that they can look out of, i think their eyes are probably being fully exercised.

anyway, for multiple reasons, i think it makes good sense to let them roam a bit outside their enclosure.